23022026-TTC-01.qxd 2/23/2026 12:30 AM Page 1 c m y b ARMED INTRUDER KILLED AT TRUMP’S RESORT WORLD /thetribunechd 13 SA BEAT INDIA BY 76 RUNS IN T20 WORLD CUP SPORT CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 146 NO. 53 | 12 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 monday | 23 february 2026 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com Three JeM terrorists killed in Kishtwar encounter Commander Saifullah likely among dead | Charred bodies found from mud hut debris Arjun Sharma ‘TYSON’ INJURED IN OP Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with children with special needs after unveiling the country’s fastest Metro service between Delhi and Meerut on Sunday. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath is also seen. PTI Already exposed: PM on Cong’s shirtless protest Jammu, February 22 Nearly 35 days after Operation Trashi-I was launched in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, three terrorists of Pakistan-based outfit Jaish-eMohammad (JeM) were killed in an encounter with security forces here on Sunday. The terrorists’ bodies were charred beyond recognition after the mud house where they were hiding caught fire during the exchange of fire, officials said. Preliminary assessments by security agencies suggest that one of the deceased could be Saifullah, a JeM commander. However, there was no official confirmation. N-E girl brutalised BJP chose optics over substance at AI summit: Cong by live-in partner in Tribune News Service and even its allies (referring conference in India. But to comments by Shiv Sena what did the Congress and G’gram,hospitalised New Delhi, February 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the Congress for turning a global event like the India AI Impact Summit into an arena of “gandi aur nangi” (dirty and shameless) politics, after its youth wing leaders on Friday staged a shirtless protest at the event. Speaking at the inauguration of the Delhi-Meerut rapid metro rail project, PM Modi said the protest by Congress workers showed the party had become “ideologically bankrupt” and “impoverished”. He said the Congress had become a liability (UBT) leader Arvind Sawant, who disapproved of the protest) had condemned the act and understood that the party committed sins and others had to pay for them. “You are already naked. Why did you feel the need to take off your clothes? What the Congress leaders did there shows how ideologically bankrupt and impoverished the oldest party of the country has become. The Congress is busy defaming its own country. Some political parties cannot digest India’s success. We just witnessed the world’s largest AI its ecosystem do? The Congress turned a global event for India into a platform for its dirty and naked politics,” Modi said while addressing the gathering in Meerut. The Prime Minister asserted that the Congress should have remembered the summit was “not a BJP event”. “The Congress leaders hate me. They want to dig my grave. They don’t even hesitate to insult my mother. It should have remembered that the AI summit was not a BJP event and no BJP leader was present at that time. continued on page 8 Gurugram, February 22 Days after a 19-year-old woman from Tripura was hospitalised in a serious condition following an assault by her live-in partner, the police on Sunday said the accused also burned her private parts using sanitiser and filmed her nude. The woman’s mother alleged that the accused, who befriended her daughter online and had promised to marry her, confined her to a room for three days and even forced her to drink urine. The woman’s condition is now stable. The accused, Shivam (19), a resident of Delhi, was arrested on Thursday. INSIDE c m y b Army dog Tyson was injured after terrorists opened fire as he advanced close to their hideout. According to officials, despite being shot, Tyson continued to move towards the militants, displaying exceptional courage in the line of duty. He was immediately airlifted for treatment and is reported to be stable. << Security forces conduct a search operation in Kishtwar on Sunday. ANI EIGHT SUSPECTS WITH LASHKAR LINK HELD FOR PLOTTING TERROR ATTACKS IN DELHI Saifullah had reportedly infiltrated into J&K nearly five years ago and had remained active in the region since, allegedly masterminding several deadly attacks on security forces, including the one in July 2024 that left four soldiers dead. The encounter began around 11 am after intelligence agencies received information about the presence of terrorists in a vacant dhok (mud house) on a hill in the Passerkut area of Chhatru. Teams of the Army, Special Operations Group (SOG) of J&K Police and the CRPF reached the spot and laid a cordon. As security forces closed in, the terrorists opened fire, triggering an encounter. Three AK-47 rifles and ammunition were recovered from the site. The shelter, reportedly used by nomadic tribes during seasonal migration, was gutted in the heavy firing. Initially, two charred bodies were recovered from the site, while the third was retrieved later. The Nagrota-based White Knight Corps in a statement said acting on intelligence inputs collated from the J&K Police, Intelligence Bureau and its own sources, a joint operation was launched in the Kishtwar continued on page 8 ASI among 2 cops shot in Gurdaspur; Pak-linked outfit claims responsibility Ravi Dhaliwal & Jupinderjit Singh Tribune News Service Gurdaspur/Chandigarh, Feb 22 Two policemen were gunned down at Adhian village under the Dorangla police station in Gurdaspur district near the international border on Sunday morning, with two Pakistan-linked outfits later claiming responsibility even as the police dismissed the assertions as unverified. The deceased were identified as ASI Gurnam Singh and Home Guard Ashok Kumar. According to preliminary ‘CLAIM UNVERIFIED’ Two policemen were shot dead in their sleep at Gurdaspur’s Adhian village, after which Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan claimed responsibility. Officials said the claim was unverified, and that they ASI Gurnam Singh Home Guard Ashok were probing multiple angles findings, the two policemen appeared to have been shot dead while asleep, suggesting a targeted attack rather than a coordinated strike. DIG (Border) Sandeep Goel, Gurdaspur SSP Aditya and Dinanagar DSP Rajinder Manhas reached the spot. The SSP confirmed both died of gunshot wounds but declined to share further details. The area was sealed and converted into a cantonment. Later, DGP Gaurav Yadav also rushed to Gurdaspur. Meanwhile, posters purportedly issued by a littleknown outfit calling itself Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan surfaced on social media by evening, claiming responsibility for the killings. Senior police officials said the group had no known presence in Punjab or elsewhere in India. “It is too early to say anything,” an officer said, adding that such claims could be diversionary tactics. Adhian village sarpanch said continued on page 8